M R Bethell (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Cardboard boards with colour illustration on front, orange-brown cloth spine, and olive-brown back board. Corners worn to boards and edge wear to boards in spots. Spine ends soft, marks, discoloration and scratches on back board. Small stains on pages 118-120, 1.5" tear on side edge of page 97 near bottom, wrinkling to bottom of pages 69-84. Clear-taped tear side of page 71. Enid Blyton is among the storytellers included. Stunning illustrations, crafts are undone, and the book is divided into the 4 seasons. A real little gem of a book, not easy to find and very good for its age. None of my books are ex-library, remainders or bce unless specified. Rosemary Brown, Quentin Crisp, Trever Evans, Mary Bethell-Jones, G. Ernest Lang, Little-Wood Moore, R.M. Turvey. W.A. Welch, Andrew Wilson (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. 1955. No Edition Remarks. 13 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over cream paper covered boards. Black and white and colour illustrated plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.…

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1000grams, ISBN.…

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition in english translation first printing hardback 25 plates lacks front free end paper, otherwise near Very Good condition in near Very Good dust jacket (lacks about one centimetre of material at top of spine area of dust jacket). Scarce.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Attractively produced mid-century dressmaking guide for schools. All in VG clean and bright order throughout. School name neatly to fep. Stiff card boards a little grubby. This is a charity sale for Friends of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 4to. 48pp. James Cliffe (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 1986 reprint. Paperback. 20x13cm. 575 pages with index. Flat spine. Flat covers. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref dch.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Printed in Great Britain. [Date from the copyright page.] First American Edition. Colored Frontispiece plus 3 other Plates; 115 black-and-white Pictures; Preface by Cardinal Gerlier, Archbishop of Lyons; Text by René Fourrey, Bishop of Belley; References; Photographs followed by Captions; 215 pages. The original black cloth is very good with a hint of rubbing at the bottom edge; gilt title on the spine and facsimile signature on upper board are bright. Top-edge blue. Pictorial endpapers and text are clean and free of markings. The original pictorial dust jacket is unclipped ($10) and shows some wear, with several chips at edges. [Please see my ten images of the actual book.] The book is filled with black-and-white photographs capturing the feeling of an extraordinary time. "During thirty years people swarmed round [Father Vianney's] pulpit and confessional. In the last year of his life, 'the number of pilgrims rose to over eighty thousand of those using public transport alone. A total estimate was a hundred to a hundred and twenty thousand'. . . . Some were there out of mere curiosity. But most were driven by the desire 'to see God in a man'. A century after his death, the pilgrims are still coming." (Page 12) As with every book from my father's collection, tipped-in at the front is the small, attractive, acid-free bookplate pictured on my homepage. All books are wrapped with special care and are shipped promptly with tracking; international sales sent via global priority, also with tracking. René Perrin (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1987 Manchester University Press hardcover edition. Some reading wear else good condition. Contents: 1 Flesh, bones, dust and society by A. Boddington, A.N. Garland & R.C. Janaway; 2 Detection and enhancement of decayed inhumations at Sutton Hoo by P.H. Bethell & M.O.H. Carver; 3 Decay and disorder in the York Jewbury skeletons by D. Brothwell; 4 Chaos, disturbance and decay in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery by A. Boddington; 5 Factors determining the state of preservation of human remains by Janet Henderson; 6 The relative survival of the human skeleton: implications for palaeopathology by T. Waldron; 7 Knowledge acquired from post-War exhumations by A.K. Mant; 8 Cremation slag: a substance found in funerary urns by Julian Henderson, R.C. Janaway & J. R. Richards; 9 A new method of estimating age at death from fragmentary and weathered bone by C. Samson & K. Branigan; 10 A histological study of archaeological bone decomposition by A.N. Garland; 11 The preservation of organic materials in association with metal artefacts, deposited in inhumation graves by R.C. Janaway; 12 The potential of analysis of chemical constituents of bone by T. Waldron; 13 Skeletal evidence for health and disease by K. Manchester; 14 From bones to population: the problem of numbers by A. Boddington; 15 Mortuary practices: society, theory building and archaeology by R. Chapman; 16 The contribution that human skeletal biology may make to forensic science by A. Stirland; 17 Forensic anthropology: the American experience by W.M. Bass.…